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Mar.04.2013
Showcasing your work on blogs, podcasts or social media is fine, just don't see it as a shortcut to finding an audience
"Piracy is yesterday's worry for today's 'artisan authors'", wrote Damien G Walter in his piece about file sharing and piracy, in which he covered interesting ground, sparked...
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Mar.03.2013
Chapter 6
Friday Morning -Chicago
As he drove back to the hotel from the hospital, Sledge Walker kept thinking about what Pam said as she was wheeled out of the emergency room, I can’t believe they really did it.
Who were they? What had they...
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Feb.25.2013
by JOHN BARBER
The Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Dec. 27 2012, 12:00 AM EST Last updated Saturday, Dec. 29 2012, 10:35 AM EST
This article is part of Next, The Globe's five-day series examining the people, places, things and ideas that will shape 2013.
Given the pressure to reduce costs,...
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Feb.25.2013
Chapter 5
North Alabama – Two Years Earlier
Tamika Smith grew up poor in Owens Cross Roads, Alabama. Although she didn’t have a lot of life’s finer things, she did have something that mattered – two parents who believed in love and hard work. Love for the Smiths meant a close...
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Feb.19.2013
CHAPTER 4
Drake Hotel, Chicago.
“Thanks Chris. We can only hope that the body of Marcus Witherow is not in that car,” Dan Patrick of ESPN said, ending the segment from the edge of Lake Michigan.
“In news from the National Hockey League, Pittsburgh defenseman Pepe L’Pue...
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Feb.18.2013
by Frederick Forsyth
"A scene in Istanbul? Research it until a local can't find any faults in your work."
When Eric Ambler and Geoffrey Household were writing their thrillers 70 years ago, or John Buchan 30 years before that, they had a great advantage of which they were probably...
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Feb.17.2013
Chapter 3
Eleven Years Earlier – Small-town South Carolina
Seven hundred and twenty three people lived in Pinopolis, South Carolina, a sleepy little southern community situated on an isthmus of land that sticks into Lake Moultrie, which is located just above...
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Feb.16.2013
Chapter 2
8 a.m. Friday Morning – Drake Hotel, Chicago
Sledge Walker crawled out of the bed, staggered blindly into the wall, but somehow found his way to the bathroom in the plush suite on the 27th floor of the Drake Hotel. The Drake, one of Chicago’s landmark...
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Feb.15.2013
This is the first chapter of BANK SHOT, a novel about the worlds greatest basketball player. BANK SHOT is available on NOOK and KINDLE.
BANK SHOT
By John Haslam
Disclaimer: Although the names of teams, cities and places are real, this work is purely fiction. Any similarities to persons both...
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Feb.11.2013
December 17, 2012|By Diane C. Lade, Sun Sentinel, By Diane C. Lade, Sun Sentinel
Getting older seems to bring out the author in people. And South Florida seniors are discovering the booming self-publishing industry is their path to every author's deepest desire: a book.
Plus thanks to...
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